Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will perform wonderous deed in your midst. Joshua 3:5
Congratulations! For we have made it to 2025- This is the year WE ARRIVE, THRIVE, AND COME ALIVE!!!
As I reflect the year 2024, I will say it has been an interesting year. For sure, many trials and tribulations as perhaps many of you faced in 2024.
Before deciding on writing this blog, I reflected on my 2024 journey - my spiritual growth, emotional, mental, and physical growth and was very intentional in connecting it with GOD.
After all, it really is our walk with God and how we overcome and learn from each one of them that He gives us strength and endurance to overcome but also to know that God never leaves or forsakes us.
In 2024, good and positive things came from this year- some achievements, for example the start of this small business – literally from the ground up but also connecting with family members, knowing who true friends are during the trials and the blessings of family and loved ones in my life.
On the other side, there were hard lessons and trials but in the midst of them, God was there sharpening me with fire- getting me ready for 2025 and showing me areas that I needed to “burn” and shed off my life- in all the 4 facets: spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental. He does not want me or you to stay in the past but to move forward in the present moment- fully living! He allows these things to happen in our life, so He can show us the areas of improvement and burning we need to remove from our life, our habits, our complacency, our lack, etc….
This reminded me of a biblical verse I read this year in 1 Peter 1:2-9; if you get a chance read it but I will focus on verse 6-7.
“This is a reason for you to rejoice, even if now for a little while you must suffer trials of many kinds. 7 Thus, the genuine quality of your faith – which is more valuable than gold that is perishable even if it has been tested by fire – may be proved worthy of praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
Personally, this verse rings true especially that the two takeaways for me was: FAITH and FIRE. In early 2024, spending time with God, I asked Him to use me, to teach me, and to show me the areas of weaknesses I had in my life; so it could be consumed and removed from me and the more I asked, the more He humbled me.
He exposed much weakness, revealing a double-minded faith and like the verse says- the genuine quality of your faith- has to be so stronger than gold because in the fire- the gold melts this verse throughout 2024 showed me, my short-comings. When I had trials, my faith crumbled- quickly! And when I thought I was doing better and growing in faith, I was quickly humbled again only exposing more of a double-minded faith.
My whole-hearted intention was to “climb higher” with God, but I realized I was nowhere close. I didn’t have that unshakeable faith I thought I had and when God showed me more areas of weaknesses, it was humbling and very…very hard!
BUT GOD, is a merciful God and although our life is a journey, I choose the journey of “going higher” with Him. I want that unshakeable faith like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had as they went through the fire and they knew that they knew, God was going to pull them through and so they went into the FIRE, as hot as can be, and they came out unscathed- there FAITH in GOD got them through that.
And so, here I am in 2025- not with the unshakeable faith- yet! But working towards it and humbled with an everyday focus and intent to go higher with Him and although tests and trials are inevitable, I choose to believe in His promises - staying close and trusting Him, reading His Word, every morning rejoicing and being thankful on all that He has given me and getting to know His true character by establishing a relationship as Father and daughter- this has helped grow my faith.
His promises and power are true. It’s in HIS WORD! He is faithful to perform His Word. Read Deut 7:9
Therefore, here I come 2025! I’m ready to THRIVE in limitless areas… WHY? Because God is a limitless GOD, He wants us to dream, build, and achieve, to heal and thrive in every aspect of our life. I hope we do this together; this blog post is the beginning of many to come. I will focus on providing information on healing mind, body and spirit so that are bodies can be WHOLE and I hope you join me in this small community and get the information to your loved ones, as well.
He does not want us to have a Spirit of Poverty but a Spirit of Prosperity and Abundance, knowing that He is a good God; always wanting to prosper us.
So in the YEAR OF 2025- WE ARRIVE, WE COME ALIVE, WE THRIVE!
Coach Rio
Copyrighted 2025
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